Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st May 2007 21:08 UTC
"If you use a traditional desktop like GNOME or KDE, a keyboard-controlled desktop with a minimum of utilities may seem like stepping back 10 or 15 years in the history of interface design. Why bother, when traditional desktops are easy to use and RAM and disk space are so cheap nowadays?" On a related note, there is a new release of xmonad, a tiling window manager for X, written in Haskell. It now has full Xinerama and XRandR support, so you can add, remove, or rotate monitors on the fly.
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2006-01-18
Whenever I read about keyboard versus mouse based navigation, the bloomberg terminal software comes immediately to mind. When people first start out with this, there is almost universal fustration that something that is so hyped and expensive can appear so "clunky" and that to use effectively you have to memorise long lists of keywords and options.. but within a year of spending 50-90% of their computing time working in the environment.. most people "get it", from the ability to manage contacts and email distributions rapidly and easily with a few strokes of the keyboard, to the fact that information, calculations and analysis are almost instant.
A good long term user Interface is not always the same as one with a short learning curve.